First lady Michelle Obama condemned the “unconscionable” kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls, saying the action was taken by “a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education.”

“Like millions of people across the globe, my husband and I are outraged and heartbroken” over the mass kidnapping by the terrorist group Boko Haram, the first lady said Saturday in the White House weekly address.

President Barack Obama has directed his administration to do everything possible to help the Nigerian government, she said.

Then there’s the report that has surfaced in the last 24 hours that the Nigerian government actually got wind of Boko Haram’s kidnap plot and did nothing about it:

The Nigerian government found itself scrutinized after a new report charged that Nigerian military commanders knew the terror group was on its way to raid a boarding school in the northeastern town of Chibok at least four hours before 276 girls were abducted.

The findings by human rights group Amnesty International echo accounts of a number of the girls’ parents and villagers, who have described to CNN an ineffective military response in the days and weeks after the girls were taken.

President Goodluck Jonathan’s government vowed to investigate the allegations even as it defended its military response and questioned the motive behind the accounts.

Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, took credit for the mass kidnappings in a video that surfaced this week. He said he planned to sell the girls into slavery.

Yes, there is much to be outraged about over this terrible incident. But lost in all the chest thumping and “We are the World” pontificating is the bare fact that the reason those girls were taken is because they are Christian. Boko Haram has been waging war on Christians in northeast Nigeria for the better part of a decade. They have massacred worshipers in their churches, including 27 murdered on Christmas Day 2012, slaughtered clergy, and targeted religious leaders. Thousands of Christians have been murdered — but somehow, Michelle Obama and all of those good people crying out for the kidnapped schoolgirls can’t find it within themselves to work up much outrage over the persecution of Christians.

The fact that these are girls, at least, makes their plight of international political and media interest. Feminism is an easy fall-back position for the foreign policy/human rights community. For that, the girls and their parents may yet have reason to be grateful. It allows the British Foreign Secretary to tweet that ‘using girls as the spoils of war and the spoils of terrorism is immoral’. But what neither the UK nor the US authorities is prepared to draw attention to is that these girls – all or nearly all of them – are Christians.

Boko Haram might, indeed, abduct Muslim girls from school because it thought they should be back at home, to be covered up, beaten, and to make the soup. But it would only dare to sell Christians into slavery and prostitution. Not only are they Christian. It is their Christianity which caused them to be victims.

These and other abductees were at schools in the Christian enclave of Chibok in Borno State. The region is the scene of systematic Islamist persecution and intimidation. Chibok, itself, was regarded as safe, until Islamists arrived to burn down the market, destroy houses, steal, kill, and abduct at will. Full, credible, detailed accounts are available through the Christian on-line networks.

Yet commentators still seem content to exercise self-censorship. The religious identity of the girls has not been mentioned in the mainstream US or British media.

The words ‘poverty’, ‘corruption’, and ‘incompetence’ figure largely, and with some justice, in explanations of what is dysfunctional in Nigeria. But the word “Christian’ is notable by its absence in explaining what happened in Chibok.

Until recently, the U.S. government failed to call out Boko Haram for its sectarian bloodletting, preferring to pretend that the violence was a local matter and not connected to U.S. interests:

“At the time, the sentiment that was expressed by the administration was this was a local grievance and therefore not a threat to the United States or its interests,” he said. “They were saying al Qaeda was on the run and our argument was contrary to that. It has metastasized and it is actually in many ways a growing threat and this is a stark example of that.”

It’s the height of irony — or hypocrisy — that Hillary Clinton would be leading the charge against Boko Haram now after her State Department failed to even designate them a terrorist group until John Kerry became secretary in 2013.

Christians are being oppressed and murdered all over the world from North Korea, through Indonesia, to the Middle East. It’s the best kept secret in the west, rarely being covered in the press except for religious media. Meanwhile, Western governments condemn Islamophobia while turning a blind eye to the murder of Christian innocents.

Perhaps it’s time to save some of that outrage for those of the Christian faith who find themselves the targets of terrorists, fanatical Muslims, and governments.

How many times does some administration spokesman have to reassure us that there will be "no boots on the ground"? Nobody expects American "boots on the ground", but what is the point of reminding our enemies that we intend to do essentially nothing to threaten them, Oh, I forgot, We are fighting back with "hashtag". That will show them we mean business.

Same way he said put all our resources in to rescuing the people in Benghazi. Overly broad without any detail. Tan everyone below him refuses to do anything or make a decision without oval Office approval.

While in no way disputing the outrage over the amoral inconsistency between 'war on women' concern about attacks on schoolgirls and attacks on Christians, i have not seen many comments that link Benghazi and Boko Haram - the Obama administration's political subservient of all negative world events to the 'narrative' that Al Queda is 'on the run'. Benghazi was a direct result of not wanting to link radicals there to Al Queda and the quote from the State Department on Boko Haram was that it was important not to link them with Al Quaeda. Obama political narrative, in which Hillary was/is fully invested has caused death and destruction.

how about that, black people kidnapping other black people to sell them into slavery.

And yet we have the race hustlers in this country that still want to condemn Americans for having slavery in the past, note PAST, but while blacks are still selling other blacks into SLAVERY now, in the present, those black race hustlers are nowhere to be seen.

Seems they can't get rich by any shakedown with other blacks, selling blacks into SLAVERY.

The timing of this is crucial. With two special committees forming (both Benghazi and IRS), and the ACA still unpopular, Democrats looking to lose the Senate, they need a squirrel fast...and cynical as it is, this has squirrel painted all over it. The kidnapping and atrocities have been going on for years..they just need something to 'unite' the country. After the election, it will be back to appeasement and the blind eye.